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your subscription; tips on contacting and communicating via the list;
mailing addresses of the list editors; a l ist of the current editorial
board); information about the network's associated service on the World
Wide Web; and contact information about the network's parent, H-Net.

I. The H-PUBADMIN Network: Scope, Content, Purpose.

H-PUBADMIN's purpose is to to further the study and teaching of public
administration. It will be, first and foremost, a source of (and
distribution point for) information to list members about relevant
conferences, professional news, grant and employment opportunities, calls
for papers or panel proposals, book reviews, etc. In that sense, the list
will be both a "clipping service" and a "posting service" for its members.

The list will also provide an opportunity for political scientists and
specialists in public administration to present their ideas and ongoing
research for discussion, to consider the directions in which the
discipline is advancing,and to encourage the di ssemination of new
concepts in research and teaching. Through this list, subscribers and
moderators will communicate current research and research interests;
discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of
analysis; test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching.

The list will also be a communications forum for the APSA Organized
Section on Public Administration. The list is co-sponsored by the American
Political Science Association Organized Section on Public Administrationm
and is endorsed by the National Associ ation of Schools of Public Affairs
and Administration.

II. Our Sponsoring Organization

The Public Administration Section is an organized section of the American
Political Science Association for members of the Association with interest
in teaching and research in Public Administration.

H-Net Editors serve two-year renewable terms, with the approval of the
H-Net Executive Committee and rotate their duties. The current editor will
be identified in all messages coming from the list. The editors will
solicit postings (by email, phone and ev en by regular mail), will assist
people in managing subscriptions and setting up options, will handle
routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings.

Anyone with suggestions about what H-PUBADMIN can and might do is invited
to send in ideas. The editors will solicit and post newsletter-type
information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions
at conventions.) They will also commissi on book and article reviews, and
post book announcements from publishers.

H-PUBADMIN will be moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like
requests for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-PUBADMIN.
They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the editors they do
not aid the scholarly dialogue.

The editors will not alter the meaning of messages without the author's
permission.

A. Copyright notice. All contributions to H-PUBADMIN fall under the H-Net
Council Policies sections 3.01-3.08, covering copyright: "[Art. III,Sec. 3.01]: "H-Net is a nonprofit communications service intended to advance the teaching, research, and service of scholars, educators, and students. Preserving copyright rights is a collective responsibility: H-Net users and editors must respect the intellectual property of others. Consistent with the objective of encouraging creativity in scholarship and education, editors and users are encouraged to transmit copyrighted works to or through H-Net, with the express permission of the copyright holder or in accordance with the fair use provisions of copyright law. H-Net considers posting to H-Net lists or Web, as contrasted with private e-mail correspondence, to be a form of publication." In general, the author retains
copyright rights to publication of any submission to the list, and
H-PUBADMIN and H-Net retain the right to store, disseminate with full
attribution, and make available to subscribers such submissions. Postings
(such as H- Net book reviews) that are commissioned by H-PUBADMIN or H-
Net are copyrighted by H-Net and available for redistribution under "fair
use" p rovisions of applicable United States copyright law. A full copy
of the H-Net charter and other important information may be found on the
World Wide Web at: www.h-net.org/about/.

B. Technical Information. When you subscribe, LISTSERV will send you a
confirmation message containing important information about managing your
subscription. You are encouraged to save this message as a text file for
future reference. ALL changes to your subscription must be addressed to
listserv@h-net.msu.edu, the software that manages the distribution and
archiving of list electronic mail.

Follow the instructions in the reply that LISTSERV will send you in
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SET H-PUBADMIN MAIL

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SET H-PUBADMIN DIGEST

To return to individual messages, send the following message:

SET H-PUBADMIN NODIGEST

C. Contributions: "Netiquette." The tone and content of H- PUBADMIN depend
directly on subscribers. The editors want to encourage lively, informal,
productive discussion and exchange of information. To that end, we ask
that contributions be considerate of the needs of a busy audience of
scholars, some of whom must pay for their access to the internet. Please
sign all mail to the list -- the editors will delay posting until
authorship is confirmed. The list also strictly enforces a "no flame"
rule: ad hominems, unattributed quotations or innuendo, or messages that
violate the norms of civility and professional courtesy will be rejected.
Persistent violators can be removed from the subscription list.

IV. The H-PUBADMIN Site on the World Wide Web

In addition to providing interactive communications via electronic mail,
H-PUBADMIN also maintains a site on the World Wide Web. The site is
located on the H-Net server at Michigan State University in East Lansing,
Michigan, USA. It may be located by foll owing the hypertext links at
www.h-net.org. The H-PUBADMIN web site contains the following
information and services:

* The archives of the H-PUBADMIN list, known as its "logs." They are in
searchable and sortable format.
* The network's official documents: its welcome files, lists of board
members and editors, contact information, and other founding and
information documents.
* Hypertext links to resources in our subject: teaching materials,
research archives, other lists.

V. Editorial Board.

H-PUBADMIN's daily activities are managed by the editors. Its long-term
policies are developed by the editorial board. If you are interested in
serving on the board, please contact the current editor. Board members
referee incoming articles, reviews, and teaching materials; establish
basic subscription restrictions and policy; advise the editors on disputes
among editors and subscribers; monitor the list and make active
contributions to discussion; and serve as the subscribers' voice in H-Net
affairs. You are encouraged to contact any or all of the editorial board
members with ideas and concerns about H-PUBADMIN.

For the current Editorial Board, H-PUBADMIN, visit: http:www.h-net.org/~pubadmin

VI. Our Parent Organization: H-Net

H-Net is an international consortium of scholars in the humanities and
social sciences that creates and coordinates electronic networks, using a
variety of media, and with a common objective of advancing humanities and
social science teaching and research. H-Net was created to provide a
positive, supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange
of ideas and scholarly resources.

The goals of H-NET networks are to enable scholars to easily communicate
current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches,
methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic
databases; and to test new ideas and share comme nts on the literature in
their fields.

Among H-Net's many services are:

* Book and software reviews: timely, exhaustive, authoritative,
professional, fast. Mailed through our lists and stored in searchable,
printable, retrievable format on our site at the World Wide Web.

* Job guide postings: at regular intervals, H-Net offers employment
information in a broad array of fields in the humanities and social
sciences.

* H-Net calendar: announcements of conferences, papers, and professional
activities, archived and searchable at our web site. You can visit our
site and sample these and other services, at: www.h-net.org